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Ted Cruz: “The response was 10 years. That it doesn't happen over like…”

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Published | Video Starts at 06:46

I will say, I asked one of the major CEOs, I said, okay, what would the time frame be to take Venezuela from 1 million barrels a day to 3 million barrels a day? And The response was 10 years. That it doesn't happen over like it would. Yeah, tens of billions of dollars of investment and perhaps north of $100 billion. Now, you would recoup that, but the infrastructure has so degraded. And I said, all right, so 10 years to go from 1 million a day to 3 million a day. (06:46–06:58)

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Asserts that increasing Venezuela's oil production from 1 million to 3 million barrels per day would take 10 years and require significant investment.

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